On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, John Mort wrote:
I run rsync to backup my Ubuntu machines periodically.
I did the same when I didn't have only one machine running, though I'm on
Fedora. Here is the script, which I called cronsync.
#!/bin/sh -f
# @(#) last changed -EAM 26Sept2008
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
#DEL=""
DEL="--delete"
EXCLUDE="--exclude-from=cronsync.exclude"
FLAGS="-aqzHx -e ssh --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE --delete "
#####
# Backup (mirror) user files
# Pull from skye:
rsync $FLAGS skye:/home/myers/ /archive2/backups/skye/home/myers/
#
The --exclude-from= lets you specify a list of files or glob patterns
for what to exclude. Unfortunately I've lost that file, but it was
something like
#*#
.#*
*~
*-
*.bak
*.log
*.tmp
*.ORIG
*.OLD
a.out
*.o
core
The other thing to note is the --delete, which will delete in the copy
any file that is not in the original. For backups you may want to not
use that, so that you can recover a file that you accidentally deleted.
Watching the backup run today, I noticed that I'm backing up everything in
~/.local/share/Trash is being backed up. This is both unnecessary, and
makes the backup take a lot longer than it otherwise would since I only
empty the trash when I'm running out of space.
One great thing about rsync is that it only copies over the files that
have changed, so you are not copying the entire trash bin each time.
And since it runs in the middle of the night I don't care anyway.
-Eric
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